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Record Number: 19930


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

From: 1 Jan 1743

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: her shop, possibly in St James's

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Laetitia Pilkington

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1708

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

clergyman's wife, divorced; poet

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Jack Pilkington

Title:

[a letter]

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

19930

Source:

Print

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Editor:

A.C. Elias

Title:

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington

Place of Publication:

Athens GA

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

I

Page:

214

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 214, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19930, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Date of birth 1708 or 1709. Mr Brush had paid the postage due on the letter

   
   
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